Senior Test Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Test Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Test Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 586 776 812
Rank change year-on-year +190 +36 +162
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Test Engineer 87 56 118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.065% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.069% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 65 34 72
10th Percentile £47,800 £41,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £55,750
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -10.31% -14.23%
75th Percentile - £60,741 £82,188
90th Percentile - £67,625 £91,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £57,197
% change year-on-year +33.33% -21.32% -4.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 43,811 81,137 82,278
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.57% 94.49% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 24,794 60,555 52,271
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,280 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,688 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,443 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.41% -12.50% -

Senior Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Engineer in England

Senior Test Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Test Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Senior Test Engineer in England

Senior Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Test Engineer in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Test Engineer in England

Senior Test Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Test Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 11 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +145 63 £60,000 +33.33% 12
East of England +39 8 £39,000 -13.33% 12
South West +106 4 £52,500 +2.69% 8
North of England +58 4 £43,750 -24.52% 12
North West +2 4 £43,750 -12.90% 3
London +109 3 £67,500 - 7
Midlands +57 3 £50,000 +5.26% 5
East Midlands +46 3 £50,000 -20.00% 3
Senior Test Engineer
UK

Senior Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 11 May 2025, Senior Test Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Senior Test Engineer in the job title.

1 67 (77.01%) Degree
2 60 (68.97%) Test Automation
3 53 (60.92%) Software Testing
4 46 (52.87%) Validation
5 44 (50.57%) Agile
5 44 (50.57%) Verification and Validation
6 42 (48.28%) Waterfall
6 42 (48.28%) Computer Science
6 42 (48.28%) Configuration Management
6 42 (48.28%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 42 (48.28%) UML
7 39 (44.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 30 (34.48%) Code Quality
9 27 (31.03%) Manufacturing
10 23 (26.44%) Microsoft Office
11 22 (25.29%) Microsoft
11 22 (25.29%) Safety Engineering
11 22 (25.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (25.29%) Mentoring
11 22 (25.29%) Coaching
12 12 (13.79%) Test Strategy
12 12 (13.79%) Ada
13 8 (9.20%) C#
13 8 (9.20%) Selenium
13 8 (9.20%) SDLC
14 7 (8.05%) API Testing
14 7 (8.05%) TypeScript
14 7 (8.05%) Test Scripting
14 7 (8.05%) QA
14 7 (8.05%) Software Engineering

Senior Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 23 (26.44%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.60%) SOLIDWORKS
3 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.15%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (1.15%) Azure
1 1 (1.15%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 8 (9.20%) Selenium
2 6 (6.90%) Git
2 6 (6.90%) LabVIEW
2 6 (6.90%) SpecFlow
3 4 (4.60%) Cypress.io
4 3 (3.45%) JIRA
4 3 (3.45%) Postman
4 3 (3.45%) SoapUI
5 2 (2.30%) TestRail
General
1 27 (31.03%) Manufacturing
2 22 (25.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (3.45%) Games
3 3 (3.45%) Retail
4 2 (2.30%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.15%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.15%) Automotive
5 1 (1.15%) Avionics
5 1 (1.15%) Billing
5 1 (1.15%) Electronics
5 1 (1.15%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.90%) GraphQL
2 2 (2.30%) XML
3 1 (1.15%) .NET
3 1 (1.15%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.15%) JSON
3 1 (1.15%) Swagger
3 1 (1.15%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.60%) Analogue Electronics
2 3 (3.45%) Online Games
3 1 (1.15%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (68.97%) Test Automation
2 53 (60.92%) Software Testing
3 46 (52.87%) Validation
4 44 (50.57%) Agile
4 44 (50.57%) Verification and Validation
5 42 (48.28%) Computer Science
5 42 (48.28%) Configuration Management
5 42 (48.28%) UML
5 42 (48.28%) Waterfall
6 30 (34.48%) Code Quality
7 22 (25.29%) Coaching
7 22 (25.29%) Mentoring
7 22 (25.29%) Safety Engineering
8 12 (13.79%) Test Strategy
9 8 (9.20%) SDLC
10 7 (8.05%) API Testing
10 7 (8.05%) Software Engineering
10 7 (8.05%) Test Scripting
11 6 (6.90%) Regression Testing
11 6 (6.90%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (13.79%) Ada
2 8 (9.20%) C#
3 7 (8.05%) TypeScript
4 6 (6.90%) Python
5 5 (5.75%) C
5 5 (5.75%) Embedded C
6 1 (1.15%) C++
6 1 (1.15%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.15%) MATLAB
6 1 (1.15%) SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (77.01%) Degree
2 39 (44.83%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (48.28%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 7 (8.05%) QA
3 2 (2.30%) PMO
4 1 (1.15%) AUTOSAR
4 1 (1.15%) NIST
4 1 (1.15%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 22 (25.29%) Microsoft